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R. A. SiMNESN UTILITY ROOM FOR HOSPITALS AND THE LI Filed Dee.

10 1924 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 jig/gef W v w55: I iw/M Patented Sept. 14, 1926.

ROGERA. SINSON, 03E EVANSTOT, ILLINOS.

UTILITY ROOM FR HOSPTALS AND THE LIKE.

Application filed December lo, i924.

This invention relates to improvements in the arrangement and equipment of hospital rooms, and more particularly to the method and means for dividing off and enclosing a part of the room into a separate utility room, including the toilet fixtures, cabinets, closets, etc., so that the nurse or attendant may have complete privacy from the patient or others that may be in attendance.

The average patients room of the modern hospital is admittedly deficient in the provision of suitable accommodation 'for the nurse in cases of suoli a nature that one in constant attendance is required. Hence, it is the object of the present invention to provide a portable utility enclosure or auxiliary room which may be built or erected in the room to be served thereby.

il preferred embodiment of the invention is disclosed in the accompanying drawings in which,

Figure l is a view in horizontal section showing the preferable location and arrangement of the utility room, and showing one arrangement of the partition walls.

Figure 2 is a view similar to Figure l, showing another arrangement or division of the space enclosed by the room.

Figure 3 is a view in vertical section taken on line 3-3 of Figure 2, and

Figure e is a view in vertical section talren on line L -t of Figure 2.

For the purpose of disclosing the structure of the invention it may be assumed that the installation is to be made in the average sized hospital room opening into a corridor through a hinged door or entrance fl, the dimension of the room being such that its length, measured at right angles to the corridor, exceeds its width. p

Structurally, the utility room is a sheet metal enclosure, with walls, ceilings, doors, cabinets, shelves, locker, wash bowl and other iiXtures forming an integral and self contained unit, having only a floor in common with the room in which it is erected. rTthe utility room is placed adjacent the entrance end of the hospital room `and closes up the space in front of and on one or both sides of the entrance A. As disclosed herein, the utility room has an open door-way A1 surrounded by a metal j amb l, which bears Hush around the frame of the corridor entrance door A, so thatthe latter serves to close both the patients room and the utility room from the outside. The door-way oc- Serial No. 754,881.

cupies practically one half of the front wall, the remaining front wall section 2 extending parallel with the corresponding front wall 3 of the room and spaced a short distance from it, and forms one wall of the toilet compartment partially identilied by a towel raclr il mounted thereon. Joining the front wall section 3 is a vertical end wall 5, extending into the patients room at right angles and spaced from the adjacent side wall of the room. Recessed into this wall are two cabinets 6, 6, consisting of metal side, bottoni and top walls, projecting rearwardly beyond the plane of the wall. rlhese cabinets are equipped with swinging doors with a mirror in one or both. The cabinets extend halfway down from the top of theroom, and are equipped with shelves, and other conveniences. Just below the cabinets is another recess extending the full width of the wall, its bottom surface servas a shelf 8. The wall space below the shelf is available for the mounting of the wash bowl 9, and various other iiXt-ures, and through which extend the several water and plumbing connections for the fixtures which are mounted upon or close to this wall, The opposite end wall 10, is immediately adjacent the entrance A1 and is a plain metal panel except for a full height locker ll, with metal side, rear and top walls recessed into the wall and provided with a hinged door l2, as clearly shown in Fig ure et.

r,the remaining side wall, opposite the entrance to the room, consists of sections or panels, constructed as follows: immediately adjacent the end wall Il, and at the end enclosing the toilet `fixtures, is a door 13, hinged along the side nearest the end of the room and preferably to swing outwardly. This door is hung in a metal frame of the usual construction, the portion of the frame along its forward edge being a stationary inullion lil, which is located opposite the left side of the entrance doorway A1. Hinged to the mullion is a swinging Wall panel or section l5, which in turn has hinged to its outer edge a door 16, the combined width of the wall section l5 and door 16, being equal to opening between the inullion la, and the edce of the opposite or right hand side wall l0. Moreover, the combined width of these sections is equal to the width of the enclosure as will `presently be seen.

Over the entire enclosure is a top wall or adapted in one position to close off the entire utility room from the hospital rooin, and in another' position to eXtend transversely between said side walls to convert said utility room into a compartment and through passage from said entrance doorway into the portion of the hospital rooni beyond.

4. An article of manufacture for hospital rooins or the like, comprising a top and side walls enclosing` a portion of the hospital rooin independently ofthe walls thereot and adapted to have toilet fixtures installed in one portion thereof, one of said side walls having an opening to one side of said iii;- tures adapted to register with the entrance doorway to said hospital rooin, the opposite side wall having a correspondingly located doorway, hinged wall sections norinally closing said last-mentioned doorway and adapted to he swung at right angles to its doorway closing position to close oit the tix ture containing portion into a separate coinpartinena and to 'forni a through passage roni said entrance into the hospital rooni, said compartment being accessible troni said passage by a door forming one of said hinged sections.

5. An article of manufacture to be installed in a hospital rooin or the like, coinprising a unitary walled enclosure consisting of top, end and side walls and adapted tobe located wholly within said hospital rooin, one of said side walls having an opening registering with the entrance doorway to said hospital room, a plurality of hinged sections forming a portion of the side wail opposite said entrance and adapted to he swung from a position in the plane of its wall transversely across the enclosed space to forni a smaller compartment at one end and a through passage frein said entrance into the hospital rooin at the opposite end, said sinaller coinpartinent being accessible l'roin said passageway thro-ugh a door con stituting one of said hinged sections, and a separate door in one of said walls adjacent said compartment for access thereto troni said hospital rooin.

Signed at Evanston, this 5th day el? December 1924:.

RGGER A. SIMONSON.

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